NHL Results - Mon, Dec 22, 2014

Ottawa @ Washington 1-2 - Holtby stretched to his left to snare Clarke MacArthur's one-timer with his glove, set up by a pass from Erik Karlsson parallel to the goal line at 4:32. Officials reviewed the play to see if the puck crossed the line when it entered Holtby's glove, and the original ruling of no goal was upheld. Beagle gave Washington a 1-0 lead 13:59 into the second period, outracing defenseman Jared Cowen to receive center Evgeny Kuznetsov's long breakout pass. Beagle was able to sneak a shot past Anderson for his career-high fifth goal with Cowen hounding him. Condra tied the game at 15:56 when he pickpocketed defenseman Mike Green as he attempted to leave the defensive zone, charging toward Holtby and beating him with a wrist shot. With 35 seconds remaining in the second period and the Capitals on a power play, Backstrom scored from near the right half-wall. It was his sixth goal in his past five games.
Nashville @ Columbus 5-1 - The Predators chased Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky after the second of three goals in a 2:14 span of the third period made the score 4-0. Colin Wilson and Smith scored 1:38 apart in the second period for a 2-0 lead. Seth Jones, Smith and Mike Fisher had goals in the third. Rinne lost a chance for his fourth shutout with 4:22 to play when rookie center Alexander Wennberg scored a power-play goal to make it 5-1. It was the first career goal for Wennberg, the 14th pick at the 2013 NHL Draft, in his 23rd game. The Blue Jackets felt they had scored a goal on Rinne early in the first period when left wing Nick Foligno took a rebound and skated in front of the net before putting the puck into the net. But it was taken off the board after the Situation Room ruled that Rinne knocked the goal off the right peg before Foligno shot the puck. Wilson opened the scoring with 12:13 remaining in the second by taking a pass from defenseman Victor Bartley in full stride. He was in alone when he beat Bobrovsky for his sixth goal. Smith completed a two-man rush off a feed by Mike Ribeiro to make it 2-0 at 9:25. The third period belonged to the Predators after Rinne made consecutive saves on a Brandon Dubinsky shot and Cam Atkinson's attempt on the rebound from the slot to preserve the Predators' 2-0 lead. Less than a minute later, with 12:47 remaining, Jones scored his first of the season. Smith scored his second of the game 44 seconds later from the right dot off a pass from rookie Filip Forsberg. Smith has 10 goals. Richards pulled Bobrovsky, who made 26 saves, after the goal to show his displeasure with the other players. Columbus backup Curtis McElhinney allowed the goal by Fisher on the first shot he saw. It was Fisher's third.
Phoenix @ Vancouver 1-7 - After scoring five goals in the previous four games and spending a week of practice focusing on getting more pucks and traffic to the net, several Canucks ended slumps against the hapless Coyotes at Rogers Arena. Alexandre Burrows scored twice to end a nine-game goal drought, Chris Higgins scored for the first time in 10 games, and Daniel Sedin scored his first in six games to help Vancouver avenge a lopsided loss against Phoenix earlier this season. Burrows, Kevin Bieksa and Sedin scored in the first period. Brad Richardson scored to make it 4-0 at 1:41 of the second period to chase Mike Smith after 11 shots. Burrows scored his second goal on a Canucks power play midway through the second period, and Chris Higgins and Shawn Matthias rounded out the scoring with power-play goals 2:24 apart in the third period against the Coyotes' 29th-ranked penalty kill. Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored a power-play goal for the Coyotes, who have one win in their past eight games. Devan Dubnyk made 26 saves on 29 shots after replacing Smith. The Coyotes won 5-0 in Vancouver in mid-November and had shut out the Canucks in three of their past four games. But everything that went right in those games went wrong in this one. Burrows, who played on the fourth line for a second straight game, scored his first of the game at 6:34 of the first period. His shot from below the goal line went in off the glove of Coyotes defenseman Michael Stone, who was battling Canucks forward Derek Dorsett at the side of the net.
Phoenix had a chance to tie it on consecutive power plays midway through the period, but couldn't solve Vancouver's fifth-ranked penalty kill before Bieksa stepped out of the box into a 3-on-2 rush and beat Smith between the legs.
Daniel Sedin banged in a rebound with 42 seconds left in the first period for his eighth goal, and Richardson beat Smith cleanly over the glove off a rush early in the second to end the Coyotes goalie's night. Smith, who watched Dubnyk start the previous three games, came into the game with an .889 save percentage, last in the NHL among goalies with more than 10 appearances. He has lost four straight starts, giving up 16 goals on 92 shots over that span, but Tippett liked how Smith looked in practice during his week between starts. Dubnyk made three saves before Burrows scored his second goal of the game, eighth of the season, as the net-front presence on a power play. Burrows banked a rebound in off Coyotes defenseman Zbynek Michalek's glove after Dubnyk had robbed him on his initial shot. Ekman-Larsson scored his third goal in four games, beating Miller with a glove-side wrist shot. Matthias converted a backdoor pass from Richardson on another power play 9:33 into the third period. About the only bad news for the Canucks on Monday was the pregame announcement that forward Jannik Hansen, who collapsed on the bench after taking a hit Saturday, would not play for precautionary reasons.
Calgary @ Los Angeles 4-3 OT - Mark Giordano scored with 53 seconds left in overtime to give the Flames a 4-3 win. Calgary rookie forward Johnny Gaudreau scored twice with the Flames net empty in the final 2:12 of the third period to complete his first NHL hat trick and tie the game 3-3. Giordano took the puck at center ice, bulled through the defense of Kings forward Jeff Carter, headed toward the net and pushed a backhand past goalie Jonathan Quick. Gaudreau's second of the game came after he skated around the net in front before sliding a shot past Quick at 17:48, and he scored the tying goal when his centering-pass attempt went off the skate of Kings defenseman Drew Doughty into the net with 59 seconds remaining. Trevor Lewis gave the Kings a 1-0 lead by going almost end-to-end. Lewis gathered the puck just outside the icing line in the defensive zone and skated all the way up the right-wing boards into the Flames end. He flicked a shot from between the wall and the faceoff circle that eluded goalie Jonas Hiller at 2:26 of the first period. Gaborik made it 2-0 with 2:10 left in the period when he scored on his rebound late in a power play. After a cycle, Kopitar skated in close to Hiller before passing to Gaborik, whose first shot was kicked back to him by Hiller for a second chance with 24 seconds left in the advantage. McBain's second goal of the season, also late in a power play, made it 3-0 4:32 into the second period. Justin Williams passed from the left point to Dustin Brown down low, where he sent a cross-ice pass to a crashing McBain for a one-timer with 18 seconds to go in the expiring penalty. Gaudreau scored a power-play goal with 1:58 left in the second. Dennis Wideman took a slap shot from near the center of the blue line that was blocked by Kings forward Jarret Stoll, who was playing without a stick. The puck caromed right to Gaudreau, who shot quickly from the right faceoff circle.